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Canon Announces EOS 500D / Digital Rebel T1i

By DSLRBlog Editors | Published March 31, 2009

canon-500d-digital-rebel-t1iJust a news note: A few days ago, Canon announced its newest addition to the popular consumer-level Rebel line-up. By the numbers, the T1i is an impressive camera, even if I find the new acronym/numbering “T1i” a bit awkward.

Here are the basics: 15.1MP, HD video capture (full 1080p HD video recording at 20fps), a DIGIC 4 Imaging Processor, 3.4 fps for up to 170 large/fine JPEG images or up to nine RAW images in a single burst, ISO speeds up to 3200 in whole stop increments (plus H1: 6400 and H2: 12800), a 3.0-inch Clear View LCD (920,000 dots/VGA). The camera comes with Canon’s Auto Lighting Optimizer, Creative Auto Mode and Live View.

The T1i is scheduled for delivery by early May and will be sold in a body-only configuration for $799.99 and in a kit version with Canon’s EF-S18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 IS zoom lens at an estimated retail price of $899.99. Continue reading »

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Canon Adds New DSLR Camera Photo and Raw Software Tutorial

By DSLRBlog Editors | Published June 15, 2006

Rob Galbraith has pointed out that Canon has added a couple of new New Digital Photo Professional tutorials. If you are an EOS owner and haven’t tried out the bundled software yet, get on over and download an update and try it out, you might be surprised at how good it is.

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Canon EOS 30D Review

By DSLRBlog Editors | Published February 28, 2006

DigitalCameraInfo have reviewed the Canon EOS 30D and while they like the camera, they are not too super-impressed …

Canon’s EOS 30D is numbered as if it were a major upgrade to the popular and excellent EOS 20D, and Canon marketing plumps it up even higher than that – the line is that it really has more in common with the 5D than the 20D. Really? With the same 8.2 megapixel CMOS sensor, the same DIGIC II image processor, the same 9-point autofocus system and the same 5 fps burst rate as the 20D, the 30D seems more like a respectable update of the 20D than anything else. When Canon put a bigger LCD and picture styles on the 1D Mark II, they changed the name to the 1D Mark II n. This new camera shows comparable improvements. We’d call it the “20D n,” if it were up to us.

I haven’t touched the camera but I am disappointed with the specs, I have to agree that they ought to have called it an upgrade to the 20D rather than give it the marketing moniker of 30D. The name they have blessed it with gives expectations of a much greater improvement than the specifications can live up to.

Still it looks like it’s a great camera. Check out the full review.

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Canon EOS 30D Announced

By DSLRBlog Editors | Published February 21, 2006

After much rumours and speculation, Canon today announced the EOS 30D, DPReview is calling it a “mild evolution of the EOS 20D” and it certainly doesn’t appear to be a revolution. Best I can say is it looks to be an incremental improvement at a slightly lower (predicted) price point.

Canon EOS 30D: Digital Photography Review

  • Redesigned body (more EOS 5D like)
  • Larger LCD monitor (2.5″)
  • Soft-touch shutter release button
  • AE/AF lock remains set if shutter is kept half-pressed between shots
  • Faster startup and wake from sleep times
  • Direct print button on rear of camera (woo!)
  • Spot metering
  • 100,000 shot shutter cycle
  • ISO selectable in third stop steps
  • ISO speed shown in viewfinder as you change it (still not once changed though)
  • Selectable 5 or 3 fps continuous shooting
  • PictureStyles instead of simple image parameters
  • 9,999 images per folder (instead of 100 as per the EOS 20D)
  • 15 menu languages (3 new)

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